The evening of November 28, 2014 started out clear and cold. I was heading out to Scranton to take part in the Kick Out the Bottom Open Voice reading, but first I wanted to grab some images of the Waxing Crescent (nearly First Quarter) Moon. I set up the tripod and took a few images.
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| Waxing crescent, November 28, 2014, 6:07 PM. Unsharp masking applied. |
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| Waxing crescent, November 28, 2014, 6:07 PM. 60 frames per second, sharpness and contrast enhanced. |
A few hours later, when I got home from Scranton, things had changed quite a bit. The Moon, of course, had sunk lower in the West, but now the sky was full of wispy clouds. The Moon had also moved into the neighborhood of smoke from chimneys (mostly from natural gas furnaces) and was dangerously close to some power lines and branches.
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| 9:49 PM, November 28, 2014. Thomas Kinkade painted the Moon too low. |
I took a shot at capturing the Moon, hoping to see how the terminator had advanced in the last three and a half hours. Unfortunately, the haze made it difficult to see much detail.
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| Waxing crescent, 9:51 PM, November 28, 2014. Shot through clouds. |
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| Waxing crescent, 9:51 PM, November 28, 2014. Same image as previous, but with unsharp masking applied. It doesn't help, much. |
